A smartphone program was just as effective as a clinical intervention in treating people with serious mental illnesses – and it had a significantly better rate of treatment engagement, according to a study published today in the journal Psychiatric Services.

Among more than 230,000 cardiac patients who had sustained a heart attack or undergone one of two common heart procedures, only 16 percent participated in a formal exercise program after their hospitalization – despite the program’s demonstrated benefits to health.

To discover potential correlations between contact with nature and health conditions, researchers at Seattle’s University of Washington (UW) recently posed the question “how do you measure a ‘dose’ of nature?” with a focus on lifestyle and environmental planning.

A study published in JAMA Cardiology found that people who live in predominately black neighborhoods are less likely than those in white areas to receive CPR or defibrillation from a bystander when suffering from cardiac arrest, which leads to a higher risk of death, an article in University of Washington-Harborview (UW) Heath Sciences Newsbeat said.

Using computer-generated protein inserted into stem cells, scientists at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle recently found they could change the cells’ epigenetic (non-genetically sourced) memory, potentially leading to progress in the treatment of cancer and aging-related issues.